Author: Ken Weaver

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  Trending: A Bevy of Berry Beers

  June 7, 2018 - Ken Weaver While nothing we’ve covered in this Trending column to date can quite match the degree to which hazy IPA has taken off, we are quickly approaching peak berry beer. The larger recent rosé trends in the beverage industry—rosé cider, rosé vodka, rosé gin, rosé hard seltzer, rosé pretty much everything—are ramping up to a fever... View Article
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  Trending: Cuckoo for Cocoa and Cacao

  March 1, 2018 - Ken Weaver Chocolate’s long been a perennial favorite as a specialty beer ingredient, although the ways in which brewers make and advertise their chocolate beers has been gradually shifting. Part of it boils down familiarity. The Great American Beer Festival added a category for Chocolate/Cocoa Flavored Beers for the first time in 1999, when the since-defunct Watch... View Article
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  Mexican-Style Lagers: Mas por Menos

  September 27, 2017 - Ken Weaver Mexican imports, and their stylistic offspring, are kinda huge right now. Brewbound recently reported that IRI data showed Mexican imports to the U.S. up 11 percent year-to-date over the first third of 2017. MillerCoors (the U.S. arm of Molson Coors), which didn’t previously have a major Mexican beer brand to play ball with, just signed... View Article
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  Tractor New Mexican Lager

  September 26, 2017 - Ken Weaver
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  SweetWater Mexican Style Lager

  September 26, 2017 - Ken Weaver
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  Lakefront El Wisco

  September 26, 2017 - Ken Weaver
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  Lone Tree Mexican Lager

  September 26, 2017 - Ken Weaver
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  The Post Top Rope

  September 26, 2017 - Ken Weaver
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  NoDa Bandito

  September 26, 2017 - Ken Weaver